Jul 4, 2026
Human handoff & avatar layer
One release, a whole operate layer: a human-in-the-loop escalation queue with consult-and-resume routing, expert assignment, a live conversation monitor, a pluggable avatar gateway, and auto-generated summaries that close out every conversation.
New
Escalation queue — when an agent reaches its limits it opens an escalation; a live inbox lets human experts pick it up, resolve, and hand control back to the caller without ever dropping the line.
Consult-and-resume — the agent side-calls a human, a phone number, or another AI agent, gets the answer, and returns to the conversation instead of transferring away. Agent-to-agent consults resolve live; person and number targets resolve asynchronously.
Expert routing — assign escalations to providers by skill and availability; assignment, resolution, and hand-back are tracked end to end on the conversation record.
Avatar gateway — a pluggable talking-head layer with a reference adapter; the agent's audio drives a face for web-chat and kiosk deployments, falling back to a reactive placeholder when no vendor is configured.
Live conversation monitor — watch active voice and chat sessions in real time from the operator console, with per-stage state and running cost.
Guardrail hand-off — when a guardrail trips mid-conversation, the agent can escalate automatically so risky turns reach a human immediately.
Conversation summaries — every session closes with an auto-generated summary, outcome, and next action written back to the record.
Improved
Escalations, live monitoring, and avatar controls are all permission- and feature-gated across the operator console and agent studio.
Consult and escalation events flow onto the same unified conversation timeline as calls and chats, so no handoff is ever a black box.